From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 240918D0039 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:15:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:14:41 -0500 From: Stephen Wilson Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] make *_gate_vma accept mm_struct instead of task_struct Message-ID: <20110309141441.GA8861@fibrous.localdomain> References: <1299630721-4337-1-git-send-email-wilsons@start.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michel Lespinasse Cc: x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , linux390@de.ibm.com, Paul Mundt , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Alexander Viro , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:09:09AM -0800, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Stephen Wilson wrote: > > Morally, the question of whether an address lies in a gate vma should be asked > > with respect to an mm, not a particular task. > > > > Practically, dropping the dependency on task_struct will help make current and > > future operations on mm's more flexible and convenient. In particular, it > > allows some code paths to avoid the need to hold task_lock. > > Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse > > May I suggest ia32_compat instead of just compat for the flag name ? Yes, sounds good to me. Will change in the next iteration. Thanks for the review! > -- > Michel "Walken" Lespinasse > A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies. -- steve -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org